"She came out kicking, screaming and crying. She was a fighter from the second, and then it was emotional cause it's like, 'Oh, good, you know, she's crying, she's kicking, she's fighting,'" Elzy said.

Elzy said Lily Grace was the picture of perfection at birth.

"She was beautiful and she looked absolutely perfect on the outside, it was just her inside that wasn't,” Elzy said.

Inside, Lily Grace had a broken heart. At 19 weeks pregnant, Elzy found out Lily Grace had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition in which the heart does not fully develop.

"Did you know when she was diagnosed this would be a terminal illness for her?" WLKY’s Jennifer Baileys asked.

"There was so much hope. We spent 19 weeks on going to cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons. We toured the NICU, met the doctors (who) would take care of her in the NICU, the neonatal intensive care unit, the pediatric intensive care unit after open-heart surgery. We went to a geneticist. We did so much and there was so much hope, 85-plus percent that she would survive," Elzy said. "The one thing that they [doctors] told me about Lily was that she was always safe when she was inside of me."

With tears rolling down her face, Elzy said she knew having her meant she couldn't keep Lily safe anymore.

She was born August 11, one day after Elzy was induced because of high blood pressure.

It was also the day she and Aldridge first met.

“After I photographed her birth, we had planned to photograph the baby after she healed from her heart surgery, and unfortunately that never happened," Aldridge said.

Lily Grace had open-heart surgery shortly after birth, but it wasn't enough to save her.

"As soon as I walked in the room, she turned blue and crashed and the nurse looked at me and I said, ‘Is she going to be OK?’" Elzy said.

The family made the difficult decision to take Lily Grace off life support.

Pointing to black-and-white photos taken by Aldridge, Elzy said, "This is actually the moment that Nicole captured when they handed Lily to us."

"That, that's the actual moment when she passed."

People often say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case a photo says what words cannot.

As she looked over a picture of her crying while holding Lily Grace, Elzy said the photo is the epitome of losing a child and what that moment feels like.

A tragic moment to endure and difficult to capture, but that's the whole idea behind Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

"The hardest part for me is just walking through the door and seeing the grief on these families’ faces and knowing what to say to them,” Aldridge said.

Aldridge and other photographers often get the same question: Why would anyone want a reminder of such a heartbreaking moment?

"I think it helps grieving and in the healing process for a lot of these families,” Aldridge said.

Elzy agreed, saying it’s better to have the pictures in case you want to look at them later on because you can never get that moment or memory back.

She was hesitant to capture that moment in her life but is thankful she has snapshots to remember her baby girl.

"I was there for her first breath and I was there for her last breath, and not every family gets that opportunity and I have pictures and moments captured that are with me, not only on the inside but also in pictures,” she said.